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- Title
Coletores de ovos de aves brasileiras no início do século XX: "Caetano-Guimarães-Chagas" em Minas Gerais.
- Authors
Ângelo Marini, Miguel; de Assis Silva, Marcelo Antônio; Naiara Reis, Jéssica; Marcel Heming, Neander; Esteves Lopes, Leonardo
- Abstract
The history of bird egg collections and of its collectors in Brazil is poorly known. During visits to natural history museums in Brazil and overseas, to collect data for a neotropical birds reproductive biology project, we found more than 1,000 egg sets collected (and reports of other thousands) between 1899-1957 at Minas Gerais by three almost unknown amateur ornithologists. We report here important information about these collections and these three characters obtained at museums, the literature and their relatives. The brothers José Caetano Sobrinho and Antônio Caetano da Silva Guimarães Jr., and their nephew Caio Guimarães Chagas were the greatest collectors of eggs of Brazilian birds. Information about scientific egg collections and the history of their collectors is part of the collection of our knowledge about birds and need to be better catalogued and disclosed to the public. We showed here that there is still a lot to be discovered and described by and about professional and amateur ornithologists about this poorly known, publicized and valorized side of Brazilian ornithology.
- Publication
Atualidades Ornitológicas, 2018, Issue 205, p33
- ISSN
0104-2386
- Publication type
Article